John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
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Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas. (1544–1590) (continued) |
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To man the earth seems altogether No more a mother, but a step-dame rather. 1 |
First Week, Third Day. |
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For where ’s the state beneath the firmament That doth excel the bees for government? 2 |
First Week, Fifth Day, Part i. |
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A good turn at need, At first or last, shall be assur’d of meed. |
First Week, Sixth Day. |
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There is no theam more plentifull to scan Than is the glorious goodly frame of man. 3 |
First Week, Sixth Day. |
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These lovely lamps, these windows of the soul. 4 |
First Week, Sixth Day. |
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Or almost like a spider, who, confin’d In her web’s centre, shakt with every winde, Moves in an instant if the buzzing flie Stir but a string of her lawn canapie. 5 |
First Week, Sixth Day. |
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Even as a surgeon, minding off to cut Some cureless limb,—before in ure he put His violent engins on the vicious member, Bringeth his patient in a senseless slumber, And grief-less then (guided by use and art), To save the whole, sawes off th’ infested part. |
First Week, Sixth Day. |
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Two souls in one, two hearts into one heart. 6 |
First Week, Sixth Day. |
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Which serves for cynosure 7 To all that sail upon the sea obscure. |
First Week, Seventh Day. |
Note 1. See Pliny, Quotation 5. [back] |
Note 2. So work the honey-bees, Creatures that by a rule in Nature teach The act of order to a peopled kingdom. William Shakespeare: Henry V. act i. sc. 3. [back] |
Note 3. See Pope, Quotation 1. [back] |
Note 4. Ere I let fall the windows of mine eyes.—William Shakespeare: Richard III. act v. sc. 3. [back] |
Note 5. See Davies, Quotation 1. [back] |
Note 6. See Pope, Quotation 306. [back] |
Note 7. See Milton, Quotation 283. [back] |